<div dir="auto">Ah, yes. The tunneling issue makes sense, thank you!<div dir="auto">Arie</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 12:13 PM Alex Carver via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2018-03-20 08:55, Arie vW wrote:<br>
> Not to hijack the thread, but I recently began toying with the idea of<br>
> purchasing Mullvad as an external VPN. I currently have an OpenVPN Server<br>
> running on my server at home which I use to access my home network from<br>
> time to time (mainly to stream my Plex library).<br>
> Now forgive my ignorance, and if I need to read up on a topic please don't<br>
> hesitate to point me in that direction; but is it possible to run my own<br>
> OpenVPN server next to a Mullvad VPN? Is it just a matter of having both<br>
> VPN's config files in /etc/openvpn and then choosing which instance to<br>
> launch? I probably would not attempt to run them in tandem, although if I<br>
> were to connect to my home server via my VPN then try and open Mullvad<br>
> would it cause issues?<br>
><br>
>>From <a href="https://mullvad.net/en/guides/linux-openvpn-installation/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mullvad.net/en/guides/linux-openvpn-installation/</a>:<br>
> 3. copy mullvad_ca.crt, mullvad_crl.pem, mullvad_xx.conf and<br>
> mullvad_userpass.txt to /etc/openvpn/ (use sudo)<br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Arie<br>
<br>
You can have as many profiles as you want on any particular device<br>
(assuming the same client software is used, e.g. openvpn, etc.) and you<br>
can have more than one client software as well (I have two on my phone,<br>
one for work and one for home) though they may or may not run together<br>
(see below). Just choose the one you want to use at that time and go.<br>
<br>
Running one and then running the other will likely cause you extreme<br>
headaches if you weren't thinking about that when setting up the<br>
profiles. You have to decide what each profile is intended to do,<br>
whether it's a partial or full tunnel, and how you want traffic routed.<br>
<br>
In an extreme example: if you had set up both as full tunnels started<br>
them both (since your personal VPN is accessible from the Internet at<br>
large) you would probably end up using a VPN over a VPN (tunnel inside a<br>
tunnel) and everything would be super slow but working.<br>
<br>
If they were partial tunnels things might still work though it depends<br>
on the device and whether more than one VPN can operate. My phone<br>
refuses to start two VPNs, a laptop might not complain so much.<br>
<br>
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